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Germany, France, Russia, Ukraine vow to implement peace plan

Mon, 24/07/2017 - 16:14

(ANSA) - MOSCOW - The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and
Ukraine have vowed to go ahead with a peace plan for eastern
Ukraine, AP reports.
France, Germany and Russia have mediated talks between the
Ukrainian government and Russia-backed rebels who have been
fighting since April 2014 in a conflict that has killed more
than 10,000 people.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's office said that French
President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and
Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call Monday and
vowed to help implement the peace deal they had brokered.
The separatists last week proclaimed a new state that aspires to
include not only the areas in eastern Ukraine that they now
control but territory beyond that. Poroshenko's office said both
Macron and Merkel vehemently rejected the idea of the rebel
state.
(ANSA).

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